It’s fall. The night temperatures in the Bay Area are beginning to fall, and it’s almost time to turn off the air conditioner for the year and turn on the furnace. There’s just one problem: your furnace may be older than the dinosaurs and barely made it through last winter. In fact, you had to get it repaired twice last year. Deep down, you know that you need a newly installed furnace in your home.

If you’re frugal, your first instinct is to keep running that ancient furnace until it doesn’t run anymore. After all, it’s still a furnace, and it still provides heating, right? Unfortunately, this logic just doesn’t hold up on closer examination. In this blog post, we’ll review some of the reasons that replacing an older furnace with a newly installed furnace makes more sense than running it into the ground. ABC provides furnace installation services to most of the Bay Area.

Your old furnace is an energy hog

Your aging furnace has two things working against it. First, if it was manufactured two decades ago, it’s only as good as the technology two decades was. In 1996, not only was furnace manufacturing technology not as advanced, but there wasn’t as much of a focus on energy-efficient design. Here’s the second part of the double-whammy: furnaces get less and less efficient as they age. So, your furnace most likely has both age and design against it.

As any homeowner can tell you, energy costs can really add up throughout the year. If your furnace is running half the year and it’s inefficient, that’s a ton of extra money you’re spending every month on gas or electricity. Each season you stick it out with your current furnace, this situation will get worse and worse.

Your furnace might be performing poorly

“Okay,” you might say. “So, my old furnace is a tad on the inefficient side. At least it still runs.” While that’s true, take a moment to think: how good is the heating in your home with this older system?

In most cases, furnaces see performance dip as they age, and are no longer as good at heating your home as they were on the day they were installed. Even in the beautiful winter climate of northern California, your furnace is expected to run nearly constantly for season-after-season. Even with maintenance from a professional HVAC team, parts and the system as a whole will eventually wear down.

The result? Your home will probably experience spotty heating, complete with cold, dead zones. Sure, your kitchen is nice and toasty, but your living room is an icebox. Parts of your bedroom are hot, while others are cold. It’s an uncomfortable experience, but older furnaces can often have trouble maintaining consistent temperatures throughout an entire home.

In contrast, a new furnace will be able to do just that, keeping your home a consistent temperature.

It’s the final breakdown

When death comes for your furnace, when will it come? Will it be at 2 a.m. in December, so you and your family can wake up to a cold home in the morning? It could be anytime. Your dead furnace will no longer be able to heat your home, and you’ll have to quickly make arrangements to have it replaced. In the meantime, your home will be pretty frosty. Had you replaced your furnace before this point, you could have chosen the time and place when you changed out your furnace for a new model.

Get a newly installed furnace this fall

So far, we’ve outlined several reasons to replace your furnace this fall. Here’s another one: you’re going to really enjoy your newly installed furnace. You’ll love the consistent heating, lower energy bills, and reliability. You’ll have the peace of mind of knowing your system is covered by a manufacturer’s warranty. And when you purchase a new Carrier furnace from ABC, you’ll know that your new heating system has been professionally installed by certified technicians.

If you’re ready to make the upgrade to a new furnace that will heat your home for winters to come, contact our team. We offer free, in-home estimates on installed furnaces, and we can help you find the perfect furnace to replace your old one. Soon enough, you’ll be enjoying a warm home this winter.

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